“Do you know what leadership means, Lord Snow? It means that the person in charge gets second-guessed by every clever little tw*t with a mouth. But if he starts second-guessing himself, that’s the end.” - Ser Alliser Thorne Before I became a senior software engineer I often thought my beloved company was terrible at their architecture. I questioned a lot of decisions. But decision making at scale is difficult....
Pros Performance Company keeps adding more monitoring. Your MacBook will only get slower. You will get annoyed by this. Mike Zorn's comment about this post Apple is finding more ways to restrict access to surveillance. This forces companies to restrict access to tools further because they lack the visibility into things. You pay the price… Often developers get even restricted from using tools like Charles Proxy / Proxyman, because they require adding a new root certificate which then interfere with company’s monitoring tools....
This post is based on my personal experience and is a bit oversimplified for brevity. Update: Added some of the feedback that I got from some readers. Is Software Engineering Still the Golden Ticket? What About Medicine… or Trades? A few years ago, if you asked anyone, “What should I study to make good money?” the answer was almost always: programming. Fast forward to today, and the answer isn’t so clear-cut....